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Comma.ai's Chestnut eGPU Dock Ships With Auditable, Open-Source Bridge Firmware
George Hotz's comma.ai has released Chestnut, a PCIe Gen4 x4-to-USB4 eGPU dock whose controller firmware is published openly on GitHub under the tinygrad organi
DeepSeek ships V4-Pro and adds 50%-off off-peak API pricing
DeepSeek has moved its V4-Pro model to general availability, positioning it primarily as an agent-focused release with what the company describes as significant
DHS 'Operation Puppet Master' surveilled anti-ICE protesters, unions, Signal chats
Roughly 30 internal Homeland Security reports, filed in federal court by a defense attorney, describe a sprawling surveillance operation aimed at leftwing group
DuckDB v2.0 Adds Async I/O to Speed Up Queries Against Remote Storage
DuckDB is moving beyond its local-SSD roots. For most of its history the engine leaned on aggressive filter and projection pushdown to read only the data a quer
Eigendrum: draw a shape, hear it as a drum — the physics solved in your browser
Eigendrum is a browser tool that turns an arbitrary outline into a playable drum by solving the underlying physics on the fly. A clamped drumhead can only vibra
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Firefox for iOS Ships a Built-In Ad Blocker
Mozilla has added a native ad blocker to Firefox for iOS, meaning users no longer need a separate content-blocking app or a third-party extension to strip ads o
France's top court strikes down under-15 social media ban on free-speech grounds
France's Constitutional Council has struck down a law that would have barred anyone under 15 from using social media, ruling that a blanket prohibition dispropo
From Trinidad, an Embedded Engineer Rebuts the Case Against RISC-V
Responding to Dmitry Grinberg's widely-shared "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better," an embedded engineer working out of Trinidad and Tobago concedes several
Inside the Gray Market for Reselling Discounted AI Inference Credits
A secondary market has formed around unused AI credits, with 'token brokers' buying up startup inference allowances and reselling them at steep discounts. The a
Off-topic for this publication: a weather forecast on the 2026 'Super El Niño'
Editorial note: this source is a long-range meteorology forecast from severe-weather.eu and has no connection to cybersecurity, software, or technology. It cont
Prompting AI Is Closer to Managing People Than Programming a Machine
The author, drawing on experience as an engineering leader, argues that working with AI resembles delegation more than coding. Traditional software offers deter